Only 4 Percent of South Sudan’s Elephants Remain. Can Satellites Save Them? (VIDEO)

A Kenya Wildlife Services (KWS) vet identifies a wild female elephant to target from a helicopter in Amboseli national park, Kenya on March 14, 2013. The International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) School of Field Studies (SFS) and KWS partnered to fit tracking collars to elephants in and around Amboseli national park. The exercise has cost 100,000 USD and will monitor 6 elephants for 20 months in order assertain migratory routes and other data. There are currently 60 collared elephants in Kenya of a total national elephant population of around 37,000. AFP PHOTO/Carl de Souza (Photo credit should read CARL DE SOUZA/AFP/Getty Images)

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In 25 years, 96 percent of the elephants in South Sudan have disappeared. If the trend continues, the population will be gone in just five years.